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West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-06

fought OH the sth.
His cavalry had
crossed the bridge
here and planted a
gun at the bridge
entrance. The Con-
federates drove
them back and cap
tured the gun. The
real battle OF Port
Repu bile took
place next day,
juno Q. After re-
pelling Fremont's
advance, Ewell,
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-06

trict of Columbia
in 1916. He was a
West Point gradu-
ate, like most of
the leading officers
of the civil war on
both sides. He was
a Mexican war Off
Ger, had seen hard
Indian service, and
during the civil
war took part in
the toughest of the
fighting in Virginia
from the beginning
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-06
MEN WANTED

to sell for the HOOKER NURSERIES,.
Established lS3l. Permanent employ,
ment. Salary and Expenses or Lloerai
Commissions paid. Experience not ne
cessary. Apply at once.
II. T.. HOOKER co,
feb35-2m. Rochester. y. Y.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-06

through the Shen-
andoah valley, then
through the whole
Union. His force
was both infantry
and cavalry; but
because of the
swiftneSS and bold
ness OF his move
mentS he came TO
be associated in the
popular mind with
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-06

were undoubtedly
marchin upon
him. McDowell's
force from the east,
Fremont's from the
west. How should
he get out and back
up the Shenandoah
valley! he had ac-
complished entirely
W hat he h a. d
planned to do.
That was to give
the Washi ng ton
authorities a scare
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-06

ernor of Oregon territory and United States
senator respectively from Illinois, Minnesota
and Missouri While filling the last Office
named lie died in 1879.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-06
THE SHENANDOAH.
The Valley Campaign of Twenty
Five Years Ago.
STONEWALLJACKSON'SRAID
But Now "ThOSe Knights are Dust,
Their Good Blades Rust"

Portraits OF the Leaders on Both Sides
in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign
OF the Spring and Early Summer of
1S0e-How Stonewsn jackson Out
witted Armies Three Times rs Large
as His Own and Escaped-Interestins
Personal sketches.
one hand on the s2ber and one on the rein
The troopers move forward in line on the plain.
As rings the word ''Gallop," the steel scabbards
clank
And each rowel is pressed to q horses hot flank;
And swift is the rush as the wild torrents flow
When 1t pours nom the crag on the valley below
The trend Of the land in the Shenandoah
valley is northeast and southwest. The Blue
Ridge mountains, You will see on the map, lie
due northeast and southwest. Almost in a
line parallel with them, laving the very
mountain foot with its blue and rushing
waters. runs the romantic Shenandoah. 1t
flows northeast and eInpties into the Potofnac
at Harpcrs Ferry. To the westward and north
are other ranges of peaks. Between the lines
OF mountains are long narrow stretches Of
valley, down which the wind and files of cav
airy soldiers might sweep without obstruc-
ton. Both wind aud soldier swept down
those valleys many o nd many a time during
the civil war; The Shenandoah region is
cris-croSsed with the ines OF advance and re-
treat; its stony soil antly covers the crum-
bling bones OF many a brave horse and
rider.
In the spring of 1862 Gen. Thomas Jona-
than jackson, c. S A., spread dismay, first
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-06

and prevent nc HAJ. GEN. J. c. FREMONT.
DowelI from joining Mcclellan before Rich
moDd. He had now to look out for his own
safety.
On the Goth Jackson began to retreat from
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-06

our subscription list for any county
10 open to inspection. For example;
In Berkeley 49,, ,Greenbrier 81, Ramp
shire 50, Hardy 81, Harrison 81,
Wood %, Wheeling 20, Writ TO-
other counties in proportion. Circu-
latiOA in this county equal To that ot
s,ny other paper.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

with legs without joint, and with the
tail of a pig; tigers twice the size Of =
lion; the phoenix. sprung from the
suns rays. that lived its life of five
thousand years in India. and. singing
its own dirge. died in its own nest Of
aromatic herbs hard BY the fountains
of the Nile. 1t would be sheer waste
of time to bestow further thought upon
the childish inventions fathered by
Philostratus upon Appollonius of Ty-
ana, or rather upon the journal of his
fellow-traveler. Damis. Quite as little
attention is due Latin writer's who pro-
fessed to have derived their informa-
ton from Indian merchants settled at
Alexandria or from apocryphal en-
bassies supposed to have been dis
patched by Indian Kings to Roman
Emperors In more than one of these
romances allusion is made to the load
stone islands in the Indian Ocean.
which were believed to draw iron bolts
out of ships at an incredible distance.
and which have been thus explained
by the fact that the seas in question
were navigated by vessels the planks
of which were bound together by ropes
and cord. without the use of nails and
boltA-AsiGtic Quarterly Reriew.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22
TRlCKERY IN SOAPS.
The Amount q: Water Which . Good
Toilet Article Should Contain.

The Amount q: Water Which . Good
Toilet Article Should Contain.
Experience is necessary in the pur-
chase of fancy soaps" remarked a
dealer the other day. You are not
always sure that you are getting the
worth of your money. A good toilet
article should not contain more than
from nine to eighteen per cent of wa
ter. The INSCRIPTIONS manufacturer
increases the amount of water in vari-
Gus ways. In some instances he forces
water into the soap as it hardens after
the boiling it undergoes; in other
cases he mixes the water by mechanical
means into the soap; in third and
equally large class of cases he intro
duces some powerful chemical. such As
CT auber's salts, which enables him to
introduce as much as seventy per
cent. of wafer. 1t is obvious, there
fore. that ten pounds of honest toilet
soap would contain nine pounds
if thoroughly dried. and that ten
pounds treated chemically would con-
tatu lCSS AuAh sAAOO pouhuSs As'a -
the wrong confined to selling three
pounds for nine to the innocent pur-
chaser. The spurious soap is affected
by water five times as much rs the
genuine. In the wash-bowl or bath
tub it dissolves visibly before the eye.
Where its honestly made rival can be
used fifty times. it only lasts ten. II
left by accident in the water it dis
solves until the surrounding liquid Is
thick suds. There are soaps of this
sort in the market which are adver-
tised as first-class and SOLD 1t high
prices Have N eye on the man who
calls on you and pretends to give you
bargains BY letting on that 1t is the
last Of the lot snd tempts you with q
quick falli ng scale Of prices Tie
perfume is there and the snowy wrap.
per. but it Is sixty per cent water IN
stead Of honest soap"-Rtilsdssphia
Cal
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22
HOME, SWEET HOME.
Beautiful Prose Poem by Rev. James
Freeman Clarke.

A Beautiful Prose Poem by Rev. James
Freeman Clarke.
True society begins in the home.
When two young people love each
other marry, they restore the picture
of the apostolic church. They are OF
one heart and one soul. Neither dc
they say that any thing they possess is
their own, but they have all things in
common. Their mutual trust in each
other, their entire confidence in each
other, draws out all that is best in
both. Love is the angel who rolls
away the stone from the grave in
which we bury our better nature. and
it comes forth. Love makes all things
new; makes 4 new heaven and q new
earth; makes all cares light, all pain
easy. 1t is the one enchantment of
human life which realizes Fortuuio's
purse and Aladdin's palace and
turns the Arabian Nights into
mere prose in comparison.
Think how this old story
of love is repeated forever in all the
novels and rOmances and poems, and
how we never tire of reading about it;
and how if there is to be wedding in
a church all mankind 60. just to have
one look at two persons who are sup
posed, at least, to be in love. and so
supremacy happy. But this. also. is not
perfect society. 1t is too narrow, too
exclusive. 1t shows the power of devo-
ton, trust, self-surrender, that there is
in the human heart; and it is also
prophecy of something larger that is
to come. But it is at least home, and
before real society can come. true
homes must come. As in sheltered
nook in the midst of the great sea of
ice which rolls down from the summit
of Mont Blanc is found little green
spot full of tender flowers, so, in the
shelter of home. in the warm atmos-
phere of household love. spring
up the pure affections of parent
and child; father, mother. son.
daughter; of brothers and sisters.
Whatever makes this insecure. and
divorce frequent. makes of marriage
not union for life. but an experiment
which may be tried as often as we
choose. and abandoned when we like.
And this cuts up by the roots all the
dear affections of home; leaves children
orphaned. destroys fatherly and
motherly love, and is virtual dissolu-
ton of society. l know the great
diff entities IF the question and how
much wisdom is required to solve
them. But whatever weakens the
permanence of marriage tends to dis
solve society; for permanent homes
are to the social state what the little
cells are to the body. They are the
commencement of organic life. the
centers from which all organization
proceeds. - Rcu James Freeman
Clarke
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22
EAST INDIAN MYTHS.

Where HerOdOtus and Other Ancient
Writers Found Their Fables.
The Greeks accepted, without hesi-
tation. the tales that were told of men
without noses. and with two orifices
above the mouth. for the purpose of
breathing. which. it has been suggest
ed. may have been an unconscious
caricature of the Mongols, says a
writer referring to the fables of the old
Greek historians. The pigmies, only
three spans in height, who were
warred upon be cranes and by part
ridges as large as geese. may have
been dwarfish race. dwelling in
woods AMI at the foot of mountains.
who earned precarious livelihood rs
Lowmen and trappers.
Bhotan people, whose ears are
enormously elongated by artificial
means. may have been represented as
n tribe whose ears reached to the
ground. and which were otherwise so
hung that their owners would coil
themselves up and go to sleep in them.
The swift runners who could run down
a horse might have found their ana
1ogues within quite recent period
and may perhaps still find them in
some of the native states. The fable
OF the gold-digging ant, as large as
wild foxes. has been long since ex-
planned as referring to Thibetan min
ers. men of low stature. who inhabit
the mountainous country to the north
of Kashmir.
The animals mistaken for ants may
very well have been marmots. which
arc said to be plentiful in those parts.
As for the monstrous shapes which no
traveller pretends to have .aen with his
own eyes. they existed, no doub. in
bright colors on the inner walls of
pagodas. and were intended to depict
the Rakshasas Of demons, odious alike
10 men and gods. Such was the probs-
BILE origin of the beings who were born
without mouths and lived ON the
aroma of fruits and flowers; Of those
whose feet were burned the wrong
way. the heels being in 'front.' while the
instep and toes were behind; of those
who bore he head of dog and were
furnished with claws, who lived by
hunting and fowling. and who clothed
themselves with the skins Of wild
beasts; of those who had the ear of ,
dog. erect hair and shaggy breasts and
with one eye in the center OF the fore
head; finally of those without nostrilA
VINO devoured raw meat and all man.
ner of abomination and died in their
youth. ungainly creatures with the
upper lip hanging over the lower. on
NO greater importance are the marsel-
ous animals enormously delineated
rather than invented. such -
serpents with membranous wingA
that dew BY night; horses with deers'
heads surmountsd By black hoEn.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Sprinkle bellebore and water q
rose bushes to kill insects.
The length of every field should be
from two to three times its width Tho
saving in blowing, cultivating and
harvesting is obv:ous.-Farm, Stocb
and Home.
Irregular feeding will do more to
cause cows to dry off than any other
method, while the practice of it is ex-
travagant. inducing waste and loss Of
time. Christian at Work.
To take grease out of velvet, pour
a little turpentine over the spot, then
rub briskly with piece of dry flannel
Hang the article in the air to remove
the SMELL KOther's Magazine.
There is no way to prevent toads
getting into the we'll except to cement
over the earth around the well for =
circumference of six feet, and the
cover or top of the we'll should be close
and tight.
Pork Cake.-One pound of fat salt
pork chopped fine. one and one-half
cups of boiling water poured over the
pork, two pounds of raisins. currants
and citron, two cups of sugar. eight
cups of -four. one tablespoonful Of
soda, and cloves and cinnamon to taste.
Household.
-Raspberries are an important fruit
for every garden, and the ease with
which they are cultivated recommends
them to every gardener. A few BUSH
es of this fruit will supply the farmer
with most delicious berry throughout
the summer season.-The Fdrnler and
Manufacturer.
Cream Carrots.-Cut in halt-inch
bits one pint of carrots. Boil in just
enough sailed water to keep from
burning; when tender add one pint
milk or cream, one tablespoonful corn
starch. butter the size of an egg, salt
and pepper to season. S+mmer five
minutes and serve very hot.-Boston
Budget.
Sheep and lambs are often decep-
tive to the eye. A short-legged, short
bodied sheep is often heavier. and will
produce more wool than one that looks
to be twice as large. Great coarse
looking sheep are not desirable, and if
one have them they should be coupled
with small, thick-set. heavily-built
rams.-1roy Times.
"A continuance very useful in coil
ing up the wire fencing: A windlass is
firmly attached in the mind end of the
wagon. and when the wire to be wound
up is connected firmly with it. as it is
turned the wagon will be drawn or
rather backed along, winding the wire
very tightly upon the spindle. Some
one will need be on the ground to
guide the shafts in order that the wag-
on may be kept in the right line.-N
T. Ledger.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

I'm the Asiatic Museum at St.
Petersburg Is Chinese bank note
printed in 1899 B. C. 1t is a great
curiosity.
Some of the leading shop-keepera
in London have ordered their sales
people to refuse all sovereigns of the
new coinage. They fear that the en-
plcyes might receive gilded sixpences
instead.
- An exhibition of French caricatur-
lists will take place in Paris this winter.
Only artists of the present century will
be represented. and there will be some
excellent samples of Gavarni, Dore.
Cham, Andre Gill and recent carica-
turists.
Iodine. hitherto known in nature
only in combination with other ele-
ments, is now found in free state in
the water of Woodhall Spa. near Lin
coin. England The water is colored a
decided brown by the iodine. -Boston
Transcript
Sweden manufactures . wood oil
in large quantities from the refuse of
timber cuttings stumps, roots, ETC.,
which is used as an illuminant There
are thirty factories engaged in this in
austry. turning out forty thousand
Gters per day.
The Sultan of Turkey has dis
patched a commission to Tripoli to
visit principally the provinces occupied
chiefly by Bedouins, for the purpose of
making thorough study of the cura-
tive methods involving vegetable rem
edies mainly. which these people apply
with singular success.
The Edinburgh (Scotland) agri-
cultural show was this year for the
first time held without exhibits of cat
tie. 1t seems that pleuro-pneumonia
is so prevalent that it was deemed pru-
Gent to keep them all away from the
show. The livestock exhibits were
made up of 337 entries of horses. SO of
sheep, and II of pigs. The largest
number Of sheep were of the Shrop-
shire breed.
IL! - - -tNo tuouStiu Ncl LbaiAS
live in France at the present time. not
withstanding the steady prejudice
against their nationality. Since the
great war of 1870 they have gradually
crept back into the country, while,
though bursts of nti-TeutOnic feeling
may occur in the press, and even be
practically shown by the French peo-
pie themselves. as on several recent
occasions, in the main the German
residents get on very comfortably with
their ex-enemies. and find the enmity
more theoretical than practical.
An International Exhibition is to
b. held at Glasgow during the SUNNI er
IF 1888 The guarantee fund already
exceeds f240. 600. and is being in
creased. The objects of the exhibition.
as stated in the prospectus. are Ito
promote and foster industry, science
and art by melting the inventive
genius of our people to still further
development in arts and manufactures;
and to stimulate commercial enter
prise by inviting all nations to exhibit
their products, both in the raw and
finished state. "-Pubtic Opinion.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22
A GOOD BUSINESS,
Why Farmers Have No Good Cause to Be
Dissatisfied with Their Calling.

Why Farmers Have No Good Cause to Be
Dissatisfi. ed with Their Calling.
Farming is good business. when
made business of. Idleness, igno-
rance and thoughtlessness never made
money in the clearinghouse, manu-
factory or store; they have never made
money on the farm. The same ele-
ments that bring success in the city
bring it in the country. The same
traits OF character are the foundation
stones of prosperity and happiness
everywhere. Farming does pay, when
it should pay. A knowledge that is
never satisfied with its own attainment:
an enterprise that continually submits
to good Judgment; an energy that will
not rest short of achievement-these
bring success in agriculture, in manu-
featuring, or in commerce.
Too many men are dissatisfied with
their occupation when they should be
dissatisfied with themselves. Not the
farm but the farmer is at fault. Farm
work is not mean work, unless meanly
done. If rightly done, it is as much
brain work as manufacturing or trad
Ing. If the farmer is dissatisfied with
his work because it is of a low grade
he convicts himself of being low
grade farmer. Farming is hard work.
but then it is healthful work. 1t tires.
but it brings good appetite and sound
slumber The farmer is not crowded
in a foul factory or confined in a small
Office. And if the work is hard, what
of that? Who mas found easy work
that is well paid for? Labor-saying
inventions have made teamwork much
easier for the muscles than it was thirty
years ago. II it taxes man too much
now it is because he is behind the times
or lazy.
The man who. born and bred in the
country. desires to leave his farm and
go to the city, is to be pitied some
what, and likely. more to be despised.
He is to be pitied because he is foolish
enough to suppose that in the city he
would get the same pay for less work.
or more pay for the same work. The
city is crowded full of laborers. Even
those most skilled in city occupations
find it hard to get steady work at liv-
ing wages. He has not the skill re-
quired in the city; he must be COM
mon laborer, and among common la
borers competition is to the death. On
the farm he has skill; in the city he
has not-on the streets excepted. How
can he expect to receive more for
labor without skill than for labor with
skill? II he engages in business in the
city he encounters competition as
sharp. and against it he must contend
without the aid of special training.
We are almost justified in calling it
sheer luck if he is successful, in COM
petition with hundred that, though
trained in their business all their lives.
must fail in nine case out of ten. Al
most every man who leaves the farm
and engages in business in the city,
loses all he has. Better it is to hold fast.
The farm is = certainty; the city prob.
lematical. save the well-nigh certainty
of failure It il poor policy to sacri-
ice skin; better to hold fast to it,
y Stab, u Cbsstry GenslemaM
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

WHEN girl pays her husbands railroad
fare on their bridal trip it's q pretty good
example Of loves transport - Aeychass
Tr0reLr.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

THERE are some persons who always mar
~ for money; that is, unless the bride
groom foryets the fee-Tsxas Sittinga
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

TIE fellow that gets into q breach-of.
promise suit If not caught at first is lass
sued at last-Duiuth Photographer.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

SOMETIMES the mother secrets the errins
boy for fear the father will hide him wher
he gets home-1ezds Siftings.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

The reason dogs are seldom drowned ia
because they always have their bark with
them
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

All thing you want in my lynn tonight
asked the reporter Of the city editox.-
Aerchont TrdwLer.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

A TIGHT squeeze-geptfng the lemon ready
for the third bowl of punch.-Aerehas
Zr0teer
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

A GOOD way to get into scrape is to shave
with . dull razOr.-Shoe and Leather Re-
porter.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22
To Feel shalZy 1t Times,

l. to be . goodly distance on the road to
chronic nervousness. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters il . nervine bene6cent in both con-
ditionS The prosecuted, and therefore oft
en- offending organ, tho stomach, il largely
responsible for nervous symptoms. nvi9-
crate it, and you will find that the sympo-
thetic nervous sensations disappear. Bill
iousness and constipation also contribute to
nervousness Both are extirpated by the
Bitters, which is also invaluable for fever
and ague, rheumatism and renal complaints.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

A WOMAN Of the period is the female type
0etter-kOchester Post Express
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

DETEcuvE-''No You can not arrest th4
members Of tho Legislature for passing s
bod bill
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

A BURLINGTON girl = learning to play IL
oornet, and her admirers speak Of her -
sths fatrest flower that blows '-Bxs@isgtss
Kcas Rrxa
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

We stand in our own sunshine oftene1
than others do
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

A souAIL makes sail-boats capaixe, but
makes . baby's mouth one size larYeE.-Sal
Hspsn Ness.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

In the bright lexicon Of speculation there
is nothing so uncertain as q sure thing
Harper's Bazar
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

Tn bank cashier Of the period does moi
seem to think any thing less than half mill.
ion worthy of his steel-Life
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

LOOK SHARP! When your skin breaks
out in pimples use Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
HIPS Hair Dye, Black or Brown, SOC.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

MAN was created first Woman was a sor
of recreation.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

The most prominent physicians in the city
smoke and recommend "Tansilrs Punch
sc. cigar.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

A RESTAURANT waiter takes in the measure
Of Q man from tip to tip.-NeU HossS Ness.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-22

GAS GOOD as represented" Is what every
body says of Frazer's Axle Grease.